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Campbell Newman, 2012. Liberal National Party (LNP) leader Campbell Newman campaigned for the 2012 Queensland State election from outside parliament. Election brochure, 2012.

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Queensland State election, 2012

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21 January 2013

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Australia

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21 January 2013

Electoral Commission of Queensland

Queensland State election, 2012. Anna Bligh’s ALP was swept from office and almost entirely from the political map after a massive state-wide electoral swing handed government to the LNP under new leader, former Brisbane Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman. Most Independent and Labor MPs were defeated, leaving the ALP with only seven of its 51 seats going in to the poll: four in Brisbane’s south and south-west and three in northern provincial areas. The State’s electoral map is awash with LNP blue after the party captured seats never before given up by Labor, and took a stranglehold on the all-important south-east corner. The ‘barnstorming’ arrival on the electoral scene of Bob Katter’s Australian Party attracted 11.5% of the state-wide vote, but succeeded in winning only two seats in the State’s far north. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 2012

Queensland State election, 2009

21 January 2013

Electoral Commission of Queensland

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Queensland State election, 2009. This poll saw Labor’s re-election – its eighth consecutive election win – under Anna Bligh, Australia's first female Premier popularly voted into office. At the same time the ALP lost eight of its seats, half of these in Brisbane, and endured a drop in its primary vote of almost five percent. The newly-merged Liberal-National Party (LNP) increased its standing to 34 seats, gaining an important stronger foothold in the southeast and reducing Labor’s dominance to the far northwest and the capital and its surrounds. Significantly, One Nation disappeared from the political map after losing its sole seat in a still-fractured electoral landscape. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 2009

High water mark: the shifting electoral landscape 2001-12

It’s said that things don’t change much or too quickly in Queensland – yet in the space of eleven years, the State’s electoral map changed shades from a dominant orange to a sea of blue, underlinin